Jennifer S. Pride is the author of The Poetics of Black: Manet's Baudelairean "Masked Ball at the Opera" (2009, VDM Verlag). She studied Art History at Florida State University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, specializing in 19th-century European art and architecture and Word and Image Studies. She is an adjunct instructor at Florida State University and Barry University in Tallahassee, FL. Ms. Pride is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Art History at Florida State University focusing on nineteenth-century European art and word-and-image studies. She continues to work on the literary and visual representations of Haussmannized Paris as the subject of her doctoral dissertation.